Ubi panis ibi patria

A lot of important people in my life have passed away this year. If wordpress/web publishing is today’s answer to the scribe , a complement to Gutenberg’s 600 year old press, then I’d like to put one in record.

Rest In Peace, to good friends who helped justify the mandate bestowed upon me aka. the course correction.

Julianne Laliberte (Jan 30, 2011)
David Ross Wolpoff (Dec 22, 2010)
Michael McDonald, Sr. (Oct 17, 2010)
Luke J Malloy ( Apr 21, 2010 )

May a candle be lit and the memories live on eternally. We shall meet again.

Been spending a lot of time with SASS and HAML. Awesome templating frameworks. I started by following @chrisepstein the powerhouse developer behind the compass-css project. After getting accustomed to Sass it only makes sense to use HAML for compliant xHTML.

The most significant characteristic with haml and sass versus html and css is nested hierarchy of its elements. This takes a little while to get used to, since we’ve never written in white-space aware code (like python), yet is very powerful in eliminating un-necessary markup, following DRY conventions. Secondly, sass mixins, imports and patterns within compass-css framework make HTML5/xHTML design a sinch – without ever using photoshop.

We are excited to offer this to clients, saving precious development time, dollars, and energy.

This slideshare really helped me out a lot and I’m posting it for my future reference and for anyone else into learning Sass and Haml.